Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
I wouldn’t be surprised at all to find out that these drum tracks are performed by a machine. They’re inhumanly fast, and unbelievably precise. Hell, I guess that’s not all that weird. But what is weird, is how varied this is stylistically. The fast Black Metal is somewhat more segregated from the “symphonic” elements, and thanks to the machine-like drumming and sometimes strange electronics, this is a little “Industrialized,” too. Plus, now there are also some very wimpy, cleanly sung male vocals that occasionally just appear out of nowhere and really seem out of place. Still, this is not at all the total disaster that I had heard it was, but it’s also not as great as this band has been in the past, when they were perhaps more focused. The real shame of this album is that one of the tracks I liked best, their cover of Twister Sister’s “Burn in Hell,” is apparently the Europe-only bonus track. What it’s doing on my review copy is anyone’s guess, since the bonus track that’s listed is “Devil’s Path,” but I understand that’s only on the Japanese version… Confused yet? That general confusion carries over throughout the entire album, leaving it a bit schizo, but still an enjoyable listen.
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